More than 70% of Democrats back government-run universal healthcare: poll
Across the political spectrum, 57% of respondents said they believe the government should ensure everyone in the U.S. has health coverage.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
With pipeline losing $20 million a week, DAPL battle moves to court
In the meantime, organized resistance against DAPL continues.
As new Covid boosters move forward, better outreach is needed to save lives
Vaccine uptake for the other Covid-19 boosters has been relatively low, leaving millions of Americans with waned immunity to a virus that quickly learned to evade the protection offered by initial vaccines.
The United States is where COVID-19 deaths are being under-reported
While the United States government and corporate media point fingers at China, accusing the Chinese government of under-reporting the number of deaths from COVID-19, it is actually the U.S. and not China that has that problem.
Dakota Access pipeline ‘could be operational within 30 days’
Activists remain defiant, with three new camps springing up in recent days.
New study finds undisclosed ingredients in Roundup lethal to bumblebees
"Will the Biden administration fix this problem, or will it allow the EPA to continue its past practice of ignoring the real-world harms of pesticides?"
Plastics recycling ‘does not work,’ environmentalists stress as U.S. recycling rates drop to 5%
The authors of the report hope it sheds light on the inefficiency and unsustainable nature of plastics and plastic recycling to inspire better, widespread policies moving forward.
Global food waste higher than previously estimated, new study reveals
Global food waste is a much bigger problem than previously thought. A new study confirmed that people waste more than twice as...
Navajo Nation suffers third-highest COVID-19 infection rate in US with limited healthcare & water
“The level of inequity that you’re seeing … it’s part of this pattern.”